Emotions are sure to run high during Saturday’s visit to South Carolina.

Hard feelings from Will Muschamp will not be included.

Muschamp’s second meeting with his former team arrives a little more than three years after he was fired and fewer than two weeks after successor Jim McElwain was let go.

Muschamp said Tuesday he is not bitter.

“I had a wonderful experience there, regardless of how things ended,” he said. “I don’t look at things that way. I had a great opportunity.”

Ironically, Muschamp’s opportunity ended following a 2014 loss to South Carolina.

Only four current Gators played that day. But Muschamp recruited a number of players on the 2017 team.

“I’m excited to play Muschamp,” redshirt junior defensive tackle Taven Bryan said. “I still got his playbook. I may pass that out. I’m sure not much has changed.”

Bryan said he hugged Muschamp after the Gators’ 20-7 win last season in the Swamp.

Interim coach Randy Shannon expects - and welcomes - his players to share a moment with their former coach.

“You don’t take anything away from young men who were recruited by another opponent,” Shannon said. “That guy spent a lot of time putting faith in the guy that recruited him to come to Florida. He gets the right to go over there and hug him, shake his hand.

“But now when the time for football comes on, he’s going to turn it on a switch and compete for the Florida Gators and compete against South Carolina.”